Photo of the Day – The Many-colored Pigeon (Ptilinopus perousii) occurs on the islands of the south-west Pacific. Islands it can be found on include Tonga, Fiji and the Samoan Islands. The species usually feeds on fruit and berries in the high canopy of subtropical & tropical moist lowland forests.
Hello my lovely and wonderful friends it just dawned on me that starting Sunday I won’t be able to go to the store to buy food for 2 weeks so I need to be able to afford stuff during today or tomorrow. I have pay what you want commissions open, I am the best at drawing Pokemon, and lately I have been doing trainers with their teams! If you are interested in commissioning me, send me a message! My PayPal is gr82bhpy@gmail.com!! Every reblog helps!
I posted links to a couple of stories about the intentional delay by the EPA (and perhaps other federal agencies) to delay the issuance of a report about the high levels of the toxic chemicals polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl, better known as PFAS, in the drinking water of millions of Americans. These chemicals were used for decades in the manufacture of nonstick pans, water-repellent clothes and firefighting foam (think teflon), and have been linked to increased risks of kidney cancer, thyroid problems, high cholesterol and hormone disruption, among other issues. The withheld study tells us that the chemicals endanger human health at levels far lower than what the EPA says is safe.
Earlier this year, EPA staff met with chemical industry representatives (including the American Chemistry Council, a trade association) to discuss the chemicals after a White House official privately suggested to those officials that the study on the substances might be a “public relations nightmare.” Hence, no release of the study. Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and the House raised the alarm, leading to this “summit” meeting yesterday (May 21).
Then this dust-up at the meeting with reporters. Excerpt from the Think Progress story:
On Tuesday morning, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt greeted a crowed of nearly 200 at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The attendees were there for a national summit on polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS, a class of chemicals linked to potentially serious health impacts with long-term exposure.
But absent from the summit’s introductory statement were reporters from several news outlets, including the Associated Press, CNN, and E&E News. One reporter with the Associated Press was allegedly forcibly removed from the EPA headquarters after trying to enter to report on the summit.
The altercation reportedly occurred after EPA security told the reporter that they could not enter the building to report on the summit. When the reporter asked to speak to a public affairs representative with the EPA, a security guard reportedly“grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.”
Other reporters were allowed to attend the event — breaking with the EPA’s history under the Trump administration of not inviting reporters to cover agency events or announcements live — but were asked to leave after the first hour, which included introductory remarks by Pruitt as well as an explanation of the science of PFAS from the director of the EPA’s Office of Pollution Protection and Toxics and a representative from the American Chemistry Council, the main trade association for the chemical industry.
Scott Pruitt later relented, and allowed reporters back in to the summit, including today’s sessions.
NO most autistic characters are not written as “asexual” they are written as DESEXUALIZED
there is an extremely important difference of agency and intent there and I’m begging y’all, as an ace autie, to please pay attention to that to avoid perpetuating the conflation of asexuality and desexualization which is already a problem elsewhere
Let me be clear, as much as I want to just respond CRY MORE, BABIES I object to the use of the word ‘doxxing’ in this case.
I have BEEN doxxed. I have been stalked online. I have had people go through my journals and my pictures to try to identify me for malicious purposes. I have had people search me on court websites to try to find the charges I filed against an ex when he stole from me, for the purposes of trying to humiliate me about an online roleplaying game. (No, really.) I’ve had people try to match up pictures of the flowers outside my synagogue and the building in the background with pictures of synagogues in the Philly area to try to fuck with my life.
So I know the kind of gut-clenching, cold down the back of your neck, hands-shaking fear that comes with being doxxed. I do. It’s happened to me more than once. It will probably happen to me again, because I’m a loud fat queer femme Jewish disabled activist, and boy does that piss people off.
But let me be clear: I was existing as a person that someone else didn’t like in those cases. I was existing as queer, I was existing as ‘someone I don’t like on a game.’ I was not showing up in public, carrying a torch, and advocating for the massacre of millions of people. When you show up in public carrying a torch, you are not being doxxed.
You are being IDENTIFIED.
This is such a fantastic distinction, THANK YOU.
When you show up in public carrying a torch, you are not being doxxed.
You are being IDENTIFIED.
This is a very useful distinction from the “so-and-so’s a Nazi, here’s their address” sort of thing that can be so easily thrown at non-Nazis just as easily as Nazis.
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